Procurement

• Develop and implement effective Category strategies and plans to meet organizational goals.
• Identify, evaluate, and establish relationships with new and existing suppliers, ensuring they align with our quality standards and business objectives.
• Lead negotiations for contracts and pricing, securing favorable terms and conditions while managing risk and ensuring compliance.
• Monitor and analyze procurement spend, implementing cost-saving initiatives without compromising quality.
• Identify innovation in the industry and bring the best innovative suppliers to serve our new product development
• Work closely with internal stakeholders (such as EM Make, R&D, VSL, Engineering, QA, Finance) to ensure alignment and support EP/NV strategy
• Conduct market research and analysis to remain informed of industry trends and supplier performance.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements in all procurement activities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Category Manager

• Develop and implement effective Category strategies and plans to meet organizational goals.
• Identify, evaluate, and establish relationships with new and existing suppliers, ensuring they align with our quality standards and business objectives.
• Lead negotiations for contracts and pricing, securing favorable terms and conditions while managing risk and ensuring compliance.
• Monitor and analyze procurement spend, implementing cost-saving initiatives without compromising quality.
• Identify innovation in the industry and bring the best innovative suppliers to serve our new product development.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders (such as EM Make, R&D, VSL, Engineering, QA, Finance) to ensure alignment and support EP/NV strategy.
• Conduct market research and analysis to remain informed of industry trends and supplier performance.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements in all procurement activities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Design end-to-end Oracle EBS Procurement and Payables solutions
• Translate business requirements into scalable ERP architectures
• Design integrations with supplier portals, banking systems, and tax engines
• Optimize POs, approvals, invoice matching, and payment processes
• Support data migration, production issue resolution, upgrades, and patches
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Compliance, Security, and Technology teams
• Drive continuous improvement and mentor technical/functional teams

Senior Architect, Oracle EBS Procurement – Payables

• Develop and execute category and sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Analyze spend, market conditions, supplier capabilities, and cost drivers to identify opportunities for value creation and risk reduction.
• Lead supplier sourcing activities, including supplier qualification, RFx processes, proposal evaluation, negotiations, and implementation.
• Negotiate commercial agreements while balancing cost, quality, delivery, risk, and operational requirements.
• Manage supplier relationships, business reviews, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Stay current on market trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices within assigned categories.

• The Manager - Contract Management will be part of the Johnson & Johnson MedTech Contract Strategy & Execution (CS&E) organization, reporting to the Senior Manager, Contract Management.
• This role is responsible for driving flawless implementation of contracts and pricing strategies throughout the contract continuum from paper development through contract load and maintenance, while providing effective and efficient contract review and negotiation for commercial contracts.
• These responsibilities include supporting contract templates that enable approved business and CPC strategies and supporting terms and conditions redlines for commercial contracts across the JJMT Surgery organization, including robotics and digital surgery, as applicable.
• This individual is also responsible for assigned redlines, including customer negotiations in close partnership with Offer Development, Account Management, Deal Managers, and the Field Sales Organization.
• They will partner closely with the Commercial Programs Legal Group (CPLG) as a Learned Intermediary, the broader CS&E Contracting community, HCC, and internal business partners, including senior management, to identify opportunities, support process improvements, and advance critical company initiatives that improve turnaround time, contracting workflows, governance, risk management, and customer experience.
• Responsibilities include, at the direction of the Senior Manager, Contract Management, coordination of terms and conditions options and changes, identifying potential gaps, ensuring contracts are aligned to approved strategies, supporting customer negotiations, sharing preferred practices, and recommending solutions that improve customer experience and operational excellence.

Manager – Contract Management

• Managing contract intake, drafting, revisions, negotiation support, and execution
• Coordinating redlines and legal reviews; ensuring policy and pricing compliance
• Supporting assembly of complete contract packages that are accurate, timely, and aligned to approved deal strategy and pricing inputs
• Supporting the maintenance of the OTTAVA contract database and ensuring audit‑ready documentation
• Partnering with Finance, Legal, and Pricing Ops to resolve issues and facilitate internal approvals
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders in MedTech Surgery, Polyphonic, and Enterprise teams to identify compliant and implementable contracting solutions aligned with business strategy
• Supporting identification and execution of initiatives to optimize systems, processes, and controls to track and manage the contracting process and reduce cycle times (i.e., digitally enabled workflows, template standardization)

Manager, Contract Management

• Drive flawless implementation of contracts and pricing strategies throughout the contract continuum from paper development through contract load and maintenance.
• Provide effective and efficient contract review and negotiation for commercial contracts.
• Support contract templates that enable approved business and CPC strategies and supporting terms and conditions redlines for commercial contracts across the JJMT Surgery organization.
• Responsible for assigned redlines, including customer negotiations in close partnership with Offer Development, Account Management, Deal Managers, and the Field Sales Organization.
• Partner closely with the Commercial Programs Legal Group (CPLG) as a Learned Intermediary, the broader CS&E Contracting community, HCC, and internal business partners.
• Identify opportunities, support process improvements, and advance critical company initiatives.
• Coordinate terms and conditions options and changes, identifying potential gaps.
• Ensure contracts are aligned to approved strategies, supporting customer negotiations, sharing preferred practices, and recommending solutions that improve customer experience and operational excellence.

• Supporting the production, accuracy, and compliance of all OTTAVA contracts.
• Managing contract intake, drafting, revisions, negotiation support, and execution.
• Coordinating redlines and legal reviews; ensuring policy and pricing compliance.
• Supporting assembly of complete contract packages that are accurate, timely, and aligned to approved deal strategy and pricing inputs.
• Supporting the maintenance of the OTTAVA contract database and ensuring audit‑ready documentation.
• Partnering with Finance, Legal, and Pricing Ops to resolve issues and facilitate internal approvals.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders in MedTech Surgery, Polyphonic, and Enterprise teams to identify compliant and implementable contracting solutions aligned with business strategy.
• Supporting identification and execution of initiatives to optimize systems, processes, and controls to track and manage the contracting process and reduce cycle times (i.e., digitally enabled workflows, template standardization)

• Build and implement a strategic sourcing framework that drives efficiency, compliance, and agility in purchasing software, cloud services, and business partnerships.
• Oversee procurement operations to ensure all requests flow smoothly through the right reviews and approval paths while meeting SLAs for speed and compliance.
• Partner with CISO and IT teams to ensure software purchases are secure, complementary to our existing stack, and optimized for cost.
• Serve as system admin for Zip, maintaining and improving workflows that guide stakeholders through each stage of the SaaS and services procurement lifecycle.
• Advise business partners on procurement policy and best practices, ensuring expectations are managed and decisions align with company standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to monitor and optimize cloud spend, surfacing insights that drive budget efficiency.

Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Vendor Management

• Sourcing execution across Commercial Categories that will effectively meet the long-range requirements of the business partners and deliver the maximum value for J&J.
• Lead Agile Project Teams and collaborate with BEL/FEL and Category Leads to assure alignment of JNJ’s objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation and cost.
• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
• Build and maintain relationships throughout JNJ that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.
• Develop deep supplier relationships with strategic suppliers to include data review and analysis, performance management and development and improvement of end to end value and bring innovation to the business.
• Identify, develop and direct the implementation of Procurements goals and category strategies, based on deep subject matter expertise and an informal understanding of industry/market dynamics.
• Raise issues that may impact the Global Procurement organization.

Sourcing Manager – MT Agile Procurement

• Join our Global Supply Management team as a Category Manager – Specialty Materials.
• Support and execute sourcing strategies for highly specialized and regulated material categories.
• Help manage a complex and strategically important supply base.
• Partner closely with Operating Units, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, Technical Sourcing, Supply Network, and supplier partners.
• Negotiate supplier agreements, mitigate risk, and drive cost optimization.
• Monitor tissue source availability, biologic material requirements, supplier capacity and capabilities, inventory posture, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and execute opportunities for cost savings, inflation mitigation, contract coverage improvement, process optimization, supplier consolidation, supplier development, and value improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, R&D, and Technical Sourcing to support supplier qualification, audits, change control, material validations, supplier corrective actions, traceability expectations, and compliance with Medtronic requirements for biologic and tissue-based materials.
• Lead and support cross-functional teams, facilitate alignment across stakeholders, communicate project and supplier developments, and influence internal and external partners without direct authority.
• Use spend analytics, supplier scorecards, contract coverage data, savings and inflation dashboards, risk tools, and business intelligence.

Category Sourcing Manager – Specialty Material

• Own the category narrative. Define the category Affirm is building, what it is and how the space should be understood, and ensure that through-line holds whether someone encounters it in a press story, an earnings call, or a policy conversation.
• Develop and maintain messaging frameworks. Guide how Affirm talks about credit, financial experience, and consumer protection.
• Partner with Legal, Policy, and Product. Ensure the category narrative reflects how the product actually works and keeps pace as it evolves, framing new capabilities in the context of the broader credit ecosystem — and push for language that's both legally sound and narratively strong.
• Proactively build consumer clarity. Identify where confusion has eroded trust and turn those friction points into brand opportunities.
• Keep the narrative current. Work closely with cross-functional partners to identify when the consumer financial narrative needs to evolve, and lead the process of updating it when it does.
• Stay ahead of the conversation. Identify the conversations shaping the future of payments that we want to enter and lead, and monitor the media, policy, and competitive landscape for narrative risks and opportunities before they become obvious.
• Support high-visibility moments. Bring the narrative infrastructure to earnings, policy milestones, and category-defining press, ensuring Affirm shows up with a clear, consumer-centered point of view.
• Adapt the narrative for global markets. Ensure Affirm's forward-looking narrative translates across markets with different cultural contexts around credit and lending — consistent in belief, sensitive in perspective.

Senior Manager, Category Narrative

• Maintain and deepen Nava’s relationships with existing cooperative purchasing vehicles, state-specific procurement mechanisms, and schedule contract holders
• Conduct regular outreach and engagement with vehicle administrators and state procurement officials to keep Nava positioned as an active, compliant, and preferred vendor on existing vehicles
• Monitor utilization rates and activity on current vehicles; identify underperforming vehicles and develop strategies to increase engagement or reactivate dormant relationships
• Track contract vehicle renewal timelines, compliance requirements, and reporting obligations; coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure Nava meets all vehicle-level requirements proactively
• Serve as Nava’s primary relationship owner with vehicle administrators, cooperative purchasing organizations, and state procurement bodies
• Identify procurement vehicles, cooperative agreements, and acquisition pathways in priority states where Nava currently lacks coverage or where gaps create a competitive disadvantage
• Develop and execute a vehicle establishment roadmap, prioritizing new cooperative agreements, schedule contracts, and state-specific vehicles that open doors in key target states before pursuits require them
• Lead the application, onboarding, and activation process for new vehicles; coordinate with Legal, Finance, and Contracts to ensure compliance and timely execution
• Build and maintain a current vehicle map that tracks which vehicles Nava is on, which are actively used, and which represent untapped entry points by territory
• Lead the early operationalization of Nava’s NASPO ValuePoint agreement, including identifying the incremental infrastructure, processes, and marketing efforts required to support NASPO at scale
• Develop a NASPO-specific go-to-market plan that identifies target states, outreach strategies, and activation milestones for the first 6–12 months
• Coordinate with the GTM and Communications teams to develop NASPO-specific marketing and nurturing materials that increase state awareness of and confidence in purchasing through the vehicle
• Track NASPO pipeline activity and utilization; report on vehicle performance and surface recommendations for improving activation and revenue contribution
• Provide per-territory acquisition pathway recommendations integrated directly into Capture Engineer territory capture plans, answering “how does this state buy services like ours” before the relationship conversation advances far enough to matter
• Conduct competitive vehicle analysis: identify where competitors are positioned on cooperative vehicles that could lock Nava out of procurements, and develop strategies to close those gaps preemptively
• Advise Capture Managers on activated pursuits where vehicle selection is a competitive variable
• Research and analyze state-specific procurement authority, sole-source pathways, emergency procurement options, and cooperative vehicle eligibility to ensure Nava has a viable acquisition route for every priority opportunity
• Maintain a landscape of cooperative purchasing organizations (NASPO, NCPA, SEWP, state-specific cooperatives) and advise on Nava’s positioning relative to each

Procurement Vehicle Strategist

• Proactively develop collaborative relationships with our retail partners to be viewed as a trusted resource for category insights and objective growth opportunities
• Actively advise Retailers partners on category and shopper centric opportunities to grow market share
• Leads the development of category strategy and assists customer with integrated category strategy development
• Leads strategic and tactical recommendations on the Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising and Pricing (DSMP) goals to improve overall category performance
• Responsible for developing customer specific presentation of relevant consumer insights, competitive responses, and new item/category selling strategies
• Actively lead and participate in preparation of line reviews and reoccurring customer category reviews, JBP plans, and Top to Top meetings
• Lead comprehensive understanding of plan-o-gram insights and assortment to help identify and drive strategic sales opportunities and customer growth objectives
• Develops strong working relationships with category leadership, buyers, and cross functional departments
• Provides distribution forecast on managed accounts as input into Campbell Snacks IBP cycle

Category Manager – South Region

• Set overall strategic direction and priorities for the responsible category
• Identify national contract opportunities; seeking to address indirect spend of full organization, with focus on regional, national or global synergies
• Coordinate with global counterparts where necessary
• Direct workload of the Category Sourcing Specialist via Planner
• Audit documentation of competitive bid process within the category to ensure consistency and compliance to the Procurement Management Manual
• Responsible for managing KPI’s defined by Procurement Management
• Manage key supplier relationships including contract/price negotiations as it pertains to indirect categories, including preparation and evaluation of the bid documents
• Negotiate the optimization/extension of existing contracts and catalogs, including the generation of new contracts and catalogs
• Negotiate purchases of goods and/or services assuring highest quality, safety, time and cost effectiveness
• Minimize Evonik liability relative to quality management, licensing, insurance, taxes, and financial stability for Suppliers and Contractors supporting Evonik
• Evaluate performance of suppliers and contractors and recommend removal or addition to the approved bidders/suppliers list as necessary
• Manage and maintain electronic catalogs for e-Procurement programs like Ariba, RIsource for total process efficiency, productivity, cost savings and contract price compliance
• Provide training and troubleshooting for the requester user community
• Identify and document savings potential, especially in terms of sustainability and EBIT relevance
• Identify and communicate regional market trends for the assigned categories
• Support compliance standards for Evonik policy and commercial contracts
• Support vendor prequalification process
• Support corporate procurement initiatives as needed

Sourcing Manager II, Indirect

• Lead strategic sourcing for key raw material categories across US sites, with opportunities to support broader regional and global initiatives
• Drive supplier selection, negotiations, and contracting to optimize total cost of ownership and supply reliability
• Develop and execute category strategies that improve quality, service, innovation, and sustainability performance
• Partner with internal stakeholders to identify supply risks, implement mitigation plans, and ensure continuity of supply
• Deliver measurable cost savings and value creation through structured sourcing and negotiation activities
• Build strong, collaborative supplier relationships, including performance management and continuous improvement
• Champion sustainability, compliance, and ESG initiatives across the supplier base

Manager, NA Procurement – Wood Protection

• Proactively develops collaborative relationships with our cross-functional teams to be viewed as a trusted resource for category insights and objective growth opportunities
• Proactively builds insights to help educate and influence marketing and sales strategy at an internal organizational level
• Effectively communicate category management insights within internal C&D organization, and category management department, not in violation of confidentiality agreements with our customers
• Actively leads and participates in preparation of line reviews and re-occurring Customer Category reviews, JBP plans, and Top to Top meetings
• Monitor competitive activity and recommend solutions to meet/counter competitive threats to business
• Leads comprehensive understanding of POG/Merchandising insights and assortment to help identify and drive strategic sales opportunities and customer growth objectives
• Advanced utilization of Tools and Insights to Enable Execution: Custom research, Circana and customer POS, Loyalty Card, Panel, Shopper Insights, Assortment, and POG tools to deliver unique insights

Manager, Category & Shopper Insights – Home Care

• support our growth and the delivery of excellent business results
• convert in-depth shopping and omni retail environment data into insights and category, retail and customer strategies and recommendations
• strive to be the indispensable partner with our Drug retailers CVS and Walgreens, providing tactical and strategic guidance
• build lasting business relationships based on trust and confidence
• create recurring business reviews providing deep, action-oriented analysis on drivers
• create compelling, insights-led category reviews, new item analyses, and seasonal reviews
• provide proactive insight into the impact of category drivers and promotional strategies to the customer and sales teams
• support ad hoc analytics and reporting requests from Customer Partner cross-functionally
• learn and drive digital commerce analysis and recommendations with our retailer partners

Senior Associate Manager – Category Management, Drug Channel

• Develop and drive the Procurement vision for, with and through the stakeholder community
• Developing the vision, strategy and implementation plan for specific categories of spend that will effectively meet the long range requirements of the business partners and deliver the maximum value for Johnson & Johnson.
• Lead Supplier Relationship Management of strategic supplier to assure alignment of Johnson & Johnson's objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation and cost
• Understand long range requirements of the business partners and engage in strategic planning and partnering to ensure alignment
• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments
• Build and manage relationships throughout Johnson & Johnson that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions
• Develop deep supplier relationships with strategic suppliers to include data review and analysis, performance management and development and improvement of end to end value, and bring innovation to the business
• Identify, develop and direct the implementation of Procurements goals and category strategies, based on deep subject matter expertise and an informal understanding of industry/market dynamics
• Leverage data analytics and technology to develop and drive Procurement strategies that are aligned with the business/sector needs
• Handle supplier relationships, communicate changes to category strategy, execute joint collaborative initiatives, and monitor supplier negotiations
• Lead team meetings and provide updates to Procurement Leadership
• Lead & prioritize portfolio of Procurement segment-specific initiatives (Innovative Medicine, MedTech)

Manager, Procurement, Corporate Services

• Develop and implement effective Category strategies and plans to meet organizational goals.
• Identify, evaluate, and establish relationships with new and existing suppliers, ensuring they align with our quality standards and business objectives.
• Lead negotiations for contracts and pricing, securing favorable terms and conditions while managing risk and ensuring compliance.
• Monitor and analyze procurement spend, implement cost-saving initiatives without compromising quality.
• Identify innovation in the industry and bring the best innovative suppliers to serve our new product development.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders (such as EM Make, R&D, VSL, Engineering, QA, Finance) to ensure alignment and support EPNV strategy.
• Conduct market research and analysis to remain informed of industry trends and supplier performance.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements in all procurement activities.

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